 Promotional Poster | |
| Mission duration | 70d 20h 3m |
|---|---|
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | 6 February 2020, 05:50:28 UTC |
| Ended | 17 April 2020, 01:53:30 UTC[1] |
| Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-13 Soyuz MS-15 Soyuz MS-16 |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz MS-15 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 6 |
| Members |
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 Expedition 62 mission patch  From left: NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. | |
Expedition 62 was the 62nd long duration mission to the International Space Station, which began 5:50 UTC on 6 February 2020 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft. The Expedition consisted of Russian commander Oleg Skripochka, as well as American flight engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan.[2] The second part of Expedition 62 was made up of the three crew members from Soyuz MS-16.[3]
| Position | First part (6 February – 9 April 2020) |
Second part (9–17 April 2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Oleg Skripochka, RSAThird and last spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 |  Jessica Meir, NASAFirst spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | Andrew Morgan, NASA First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 3 | Anatoli Ivanishin, RSA Third and last spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 4 | Ivan Vagner, RSA First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 5 | Christopher Cassidy, NASA Third and last spaceflight | |
Soyuz MS-16 was originally meant to transport the Expedition 63/64 crew to the ISS, carrying Tikhonov, Babkin and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide to the ISS. On 31 October 2019 it was announced that NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy would fly the mission instead of Hoshide, in order to make sure an American astronaut was on board the station at all times, in the face of delays with the Commercial Crew Program. These changes also meant that Soyuz MS-16's crew would make up part of Expedition 62.[4] The Expedition also marked the first time the Russian segment of the ISS has had three crew members since Expedition 50, and was one of the shortest expeditions in the program, at just over two months long.
In February 2019, graphic designer and art director Jessie Bowers (Cypha) designed the Expedition 62 patch. This mission patch is the final ISS expedition insignia that bears the crew's surnames. All succeeding patches have no names in their graphics since the expedition member sizes has expanded to eleven individuals.
